Tachyon Project

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  • Summary: Tachyon Project is an action packed dual-stick shooter driven by a story. Through the story mode you'll progressively unlock all the weapons, secondary weapons and perks available to configure your ship. You'll need them to face the increasingly hard enemies you'll find with over 30Tachyon Project is an action packed dual-stick shooter driven by a story. Through the story mode you'll progressively unlock all the weapons, secondary weapons and perks available to configure your ship. You'll need them to face the increasingly hard enemies you'll find with over 30 different types (including 4 bosses). In Tachyon Project you take control of Ada, a software program that has taken conscience and that was designed to hack into the most secure servers on Earth. After some rather misterious events, Ada is thrown out of the test server where it was living and out into the Internet, but when she tries to go back there she finds she's unable to. She'll then start a journey to uncover the truth behind what happened to her creators, which she considers her parents. In the process she'll find out that things were a bit more complex than she initially thought.… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. 4P.de
    Jan 22, 2016
    86
    Yes, it is rather short. But Geometry Wars 3 aside I haven’t had that much fun with a twin-stick shooter in a while. Be wary of the spiking difficulty in the middle though where it moves from challenging to frustrating for a little while.
  2. Brash Games
    Jan 10, 2016
    80
    Perfect in quick bursts or when you have a few minutes to spare, you can jump straight in and within seconds the control scheme is in place, and the story becomes superfluous to what is just fun, solid arcade game.
  3. Hobby Consolas
    Jan 20, 2016
    80
    Tachyon Project is a game that provides a lot of fun and allows us to play with three other friends on the same console. It has good ideas and flawless gameplay.
  4. PlayStation Universe
    Jan 21, 2016
    70
    Tachyon Project does enough to get noticed in the sea of modern twin-stick shooters thanks to its inventive setup, but there’s still something missing that means it never hits the heights of the very best in the genre. For what it is, and what it costs, you’ll get more than enough out of it.
  5. Everyeye.it
    Feb 2, 2016
    65
    A classic shoot'em up, that has a hard time emerging from the crowded genre.
  6. Multiplayer.it
    Feb 1, 2016
    65
    Tachyon Project is a decent twin stick shooter, with some good ideas but a short campaign.
  7. Game Revolution
    Jan 25, 2016
    50
    While it’s passable in terms of quality, it’s wholly derivative of its source of inspiration, and the attempts made by Eclipse Games to carve out its own identity mostly fall flat.

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  1. FriedConsole
    Jan 21, 2016
    6
    A twin stick shooter very derivative of Geometry Wars. Not bad but nothing really unique or interesting here. It's OK but I don't see why youA twin stick shooter very derivative of Geometry Wars. Not bad but nothing really unique or interesting here. It's OK but I don't see why you would want to play this over the many better twin stick shooters.… Expand
  2. GreenMachineG
    Jan 19, 2016
    5
    Tachyon Project is a top-down, twin-stick shooter where you control a little spaceship "virus" if you will and defeat enemies to hack intoTachyon Project is a top-down, twin-stick shooter where you control a little spaceship "virus" if you will and defeat enemies to hack into places. The game has a bright, neon art style that is pleasing to the eye. Controls are intuitive, and feel really good. The tutorial explains everything very well so that's a plus. The interesting thing about this game is the health system is completely time-based, as in killing enemies and collecting the orbs they drop increases your time limit to beat each level, and getting hit by enemies decreases your time limit. The game also throws in some more interesting concepts with "stealth severs" where the enemies can only see you when you make noises (shooting, bombs, etc.). This allows for a hint of strategy/stealth to be thrown in to the usual non-stop hold down the trigger approach of a lot of twin-stick shooters like this. The story is poor, and I almost feel the game would be better without it. The story is of two hackers who create a program that in essence is you. You are this ultimate hacking machine they use to get dirt on people, and hack companies, etc, but then they get raided by an unknown group and they release you into the internet. From there your dialogue comes across as somewhat childish, not knowing what do in the world wide web, but also the dialogue has some poor attempts at humor that turned me off to the story/dialogue quite a bit. I feel like the story could've been much simpler and it would have made it cooler, rather than looking for your missing "parents". Good arcade-y gameplay, and a fun twin-stick shooter, but a poor story and dialogue brings the game down, rather than distinguishing itself from a genre with a lot of good examples.

    6.5/10    … Expand